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MUMBAI: Showing faith in India's economic growth, corporate occupiers have been lapping up office spaces for their expansion, which is reflected in the decline in office vacancy levels across the country to 15% from around 19% in 2013. The sharpest fall in pan-India vacancy levels is expected in 2016 and 2017 when it will ease below 13%, said a JLL India report.

NEW DELHI: With the sentiment among corporates across the country improving, net absorption of office space in India expected to be about 31 million sq ft by the end of 2015, according to a joint study by industry body Assocham and property advisory firm JLL.

MUMBAI | BENGALURU: With commercial real estate showing signs of recovery, property developers that had stopped investing additionally in this segment are now looking to invest in office projects. The rising interest is this space has been generated by better demand outlook and constrained supply of grade A office spaces as most developers did not launch any major office projects since 2009, given the weak uptake until recently.

Mumbai: Office space absorption during the July-September period increased marginally to 10.6 million sq ft compared to the previous quarter, with Gurgaon witnessing the highest leasing activity, says a survey.

The IT and ITeS companies’ capacity expansion plans, the country’s office space market seems to be regaining lost steam. With a major chunk of total absorption of Grade A office space being notched up by the technology sector, in the January-March quarter, commercial realty market is getting ready to make the most of it.

MUMBAI: Failing to find a buyer for its entire office building in suburban Mumbai for Rs 315 crore over the last six months, Standard Chartered Bank is now offering the option of partial sale on a floor-wise basis to woo buyers.

MUMBAI: The overall office space absorption in the top seven cities of the country grew by approximately 35 per cent in fourth quarter of this fiscal at nearly 8.2 million sq ft against six million sq ft in the previous quarter, according to real estate consultancy CBRE’s latest report.

MUMBAI: In 2014, the shortage of high-quality office spaces in Mumbai will intensify. However, overall office stock in the city is expected to rise by 7.4% y/y in 2014. The sub-markets which will see highest rise in stock of office space include the West Suburbs, SBD North and East Suburbs (in that order). The CBD, SBD-Central and Thane-Navi Mumbai will witness the least or very moderate growth in stock.

BANGALORE: Bangalore witnessed a large drop in office space absorption of 39 per cent in 2013 as compared with last year. The city office space absorption this year is around 45.76 lakh square feet as against 75.17 lakh square feet last year.

DELHI: Connaught Place has slipped two notches to become the world’s seventh costliest office destination due to slowdown in the realty market and fall in rupee’s exchange rate, property consultant CBRE has said.

MUMBAI: The total net office space absorption recorded a 25 per cent decline across top eight cities over the last year at 23 million square feet (msf), according to the annual estimations by global real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.

DELHI: The commercial office segment of India’s top cities is expected to see fresh supply addition of more than 150 million sq.ft by end-2017. According to CBRE Research, the next four to five years (including the concluding months of 2013) are slated to see the completion of a number of under construction and planned commercial office projects—almost comparable to the existing Grade A office space of India’s National Capital Region (NCR) and its financial capital put together.

MUMBAI: Mumbai witnessed sluggish commercial leasing activity during the third quarter of 2013. The micro markets of Lower Parel, Thane and Navi Mumbai witnessed high traction and were the preferred regions for office space leasing. Rental values in Mumbai remained largely stable with marginal dip in the central business district (CBD) and alternative business district (ABD) locations, according to the findings of CBRE’s latest report, India Office Market View Q3 2013.

MUMBAI: The quantum of large commercial space leased out dipped sharply last quarter. While Delhi saw a drop of 91% sequentially and 66% over the March quarter, the trend in Mumbai was only slightly better — the fall was 50% sequentially and 62% over the January-March period. Indeed, there seem to be few takers for office space of more than 1 lakh square feet — just 1.2 lakh sq ft was rented in Delhi in the September quarter while in Mumbai the area was 2.5 lakh sq ft.

DELHI: The impact of the slowdown is being felt on the office market with leasing of space dropping by 20% in the July to September quarter of 2013 compared to the previous quarter, says a DTZ report. Corporates leased 6.8 million sq ft of space in the quarter.

MUMBAI: Bullish on the revival of the economy after general elections, real estate consultancy firm Cushman & Wakefield expects nearly 132 million sqft of office space, across the eight major metros, to get absorbed by 2017.

CHENNAI: The demand for office space dipped in Chennai during the second quarter of 2013 in the backdrop of the economic situation and cautious market sentiment, according to Colliers International’s quarterly update on office market.